Hall Takes Dew Season Title

AST Dew Tour

Tanner Hall won the freeski superpipe competition Saturday in the Winter Dew Tour Toyota Championship and also took the Dew Cup season title.

Hall, from Kalispell, Mont., displayed consistency and amplitudeon his second run,which included a 1260, consecutive 900's, analley-oop flatspin 360 to a switch 900. He scored 93.75 points.

Simon Dumont, of Bethel, Maine, was second at 92.50, and ColbyWest of Breckenridge, Colo. was third at 87.00.

"When I went down on my last run I knew I was either going tobe first or second, and that's always a good feeling," Hall said."It gave me confidence to just go out and lay it all on the linefor that last run.

"For the overall winner it shows a natural progression and asign of consistency to the winners. For all three stops you got tobe on your game if you want to come out on top at the end, and Ithink it's great."

Earlier, Tom Wallisch won the freeski slopestyle competition inhis first tour event after missing the first two stops because ofinjuries.

The 21-year-old Wallisch, from Pittsburgh, had a few wobbles onhis first run, but executed a flawless second run to score 92.83.Canadian Alexis Godbout was second at 91.83, and New Zealand'sJossi Wells was third at 90.50.

"I haven't been in too many big competitions, let alone liveTV," Wallisch said. "I got a little overexcited and went a littletoo big at first, but I went back up and just tried to focus onwhat I was doing and just put it all into perspective. I just skiedthrough the course like any other day in the park and I was able toski through it and it worked out."

His winning run began with a 270 on to pretzel 270 out on thebox and a blindside misty 630 out on the cannon rail. He continuedwith a rodeo 900 with high mute grab into a switch tails over 270disaster. He finished with consecutive switch 1080's on the lasttwo jumps.

PK Hunder, of Norway, finished sixth in the event, but won theDew Cup season title in freeski slopestyle.

"It means a lot," Hunder said. "I got injured last year so Iwas hoping this would be my comeback year so winning the Dew Cup is probably one of the biggest things out there, so I'm reallystoked."

The four-day competition is the last of three stops on the tourthat features men's and women's freeskiing and snowboardingdisciplines. Sunday's action features the men's and women'ssnowboard superpipe finals.

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